College Discussion (Academic)

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Originally Posted by Xaenn

It seems like AP classes are perhaps the best way to redeem some of that time, but that only works for heading towards college afterwards. Either high school could be shortened, or something useful could be added. I didn't feel at much of a disadvantage in not having it.

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I did take a couple AP classes but not too many are offered at my high school. Instead I have been taking college classes for dual credit. It has worked out well so far and is one of the only things keeping me sane this year.

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Originally Posted by Kosmo Yagkoto

I did take a couple AP classes but not too many are offered at my high school. Instead I have been taking college classes for dual credit. It has worked out well so far and is one of the only things keeping me sane this year.

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Excellent. It really works to the same effect as AP credit, which is the exact effect I was referring to.

Except AP is to the effect similar to school, free.

ap exams cost money

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Originally Posted by CheezyMadman

Majored in computer science for a semester, got a .463 GPA b/c i really didn't bother...

Working on getting a job ATM, gonna try again in the fall, after my mandatory "temporary dismissal". :(

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Ouch. I got a 1.065 GPA and I'm on the "Suspension Pending" list this past fall semester. If I don't do well this semester I'll be suspended for a year.

I'm majoring in Biology. Though I'm not quite sure it's the exact one I should be studying, it's the only career offered at my college that won't make me jump in front of a freight train(it's an IT school, mostly engineering and architecture majors, which everyone asks me wtf I'm studying Bio there. Well it's simple: they admitted me, and financial aid covers the whole tuition. :wacko: ) I take my Biology class at the university next door, Rutgers, so I might transfer in the future as I hate NJIT. It reeks of unbathed nerds, and of the 20 girls in the whole college, two of them are decent, and they're both taken. It's one big stinky sausage party, I'd say.

Biology isn't a hard career, it's those fucking required courses you have to take that make it a pain. As a Bachelor of Science, you need to take like 2 more semesters of a mathematics class than someone with a Bachelor of Arts, but in Biology a B.A. is seen like if it was for wussies. :wacko:

I don't think any educational institution is as sensitive to health related challenges as they should be:/

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what if you were an EP admin? wut wud ur major/minor be?

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Major: Administraive and Business Management
Minor: Kickass Moderating

Xaenn, already gave you most of it, anyway, MasJ's studying for engineering, his preference is electrical.

We don't have a major/minor system in India, you just graduate and get a BA/Bsc/MBBS/BE/BTech/BlahBlah degree and then do your masters and then whatever else you want to do in life.

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Originally Posted by Xaenn

Thanks everyone. Of course it's a fact I purposely ommit in my college...no need to enrage my fellow students.

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Ah, the burdens of being Ms. Smarty Pants;P

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Originally Posted by Jaws

I start college in 1 1/2 years and I plan on majoring in either Criminal Justice or Science Education.

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Bleeding cool. I want to do a course in criminal forensic sciences. There's only one college in India which gives that as a course for non-med students.

Other than that, I am doing my under-grad. in Political Science and plan to get a diploma in Conflict Transformation and Peace Studies and then study law and do my masters in criminal defense and maybe solicit for a few years and then teach in a school, for which I'll need a BEd. degree, so I guess I'll do that through correspondence in my first year of law.

Waaaah. Actually all I want to do is live with MasJ, have his babies and then grow old with him and for money, I guess, own a book store (which will need money-I'm saving; ) with my own little cake and orange juice vending machine.